Soldiers of Valhalla - nominations and discussion

[UtahScott]

Originally Posted by Scytale

@Leaf_It , is that a pictures of the old sculpts next to the new ones?

Yes. The four old Specters alternate placement with the Visages and Master Aldorn.

[Scytale]

Originally Posted by UtahScott

Yes. The four old Specters alternate placement with the Visages and Master Aldorn.

Colorless translucent figures like these can easily have a problem of being too similar and difficult to tell apart at a glance. That's a real concern to me. I may have to buy the figures before I make a vote.

[Leaf_It]

I meant to reply here a couple days ago, but ended up working on other things.

Originally Posted by Vydar_XLIII

Master Aldorn and the Visages of Aldorn:

1) "Terrifying squad figures" seems cleaner than "Terrors and common terrifying figures." It would work the same except for swapping out the Bloodburst Thrall for the Ebon Armor. But that's your choice.

2) I would have written it like this, but its just semantics. Your update accomplishes the same thing.

3) Good. I just wanted to make sure it was looked at.

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Lady Aldorn: Of those previous names I like "Call of Aldorn" the most. I also did not realize that Lady Aldorn can move the Visages. That makes her slightly more interesting.

Call of Aldorn it is. I'll edit the name change into my submission.

Originally Posted by superfrog

I like the Aldorn designs. A few quibbles which I'll point out here (I apologize for not pointing these out to you before submission):

1. Can you have Visages in your army if you don't have Master Aldorn? I can't tell the intention.

2. I also agree with Vydar that "terrors and common terrifying figures" is way too awkward of a construction for what it does, and that "Terrifying Squad figures" is preferable without really changing the design outside of a few corner cases.

At the moment, I'll do to review Lady Aldorn.

Yeah, you and Vydar are right. I'll change it to Terrifying Squad Figures, and edit that into the submission. I'll also add "with a range of 1" just to future proof it a little bit.

Originally Posted by Scytale

Colorless translucent figures like these can easily have a problem of being too similar and difficult to tell apart at a glance. That's a real concern to me. I may have to buy the figures before I make a vote.

In person I have no trouble identifying them, but I've also been using these figures for several years, so I'm very familiar with them. I'll post some more pictures, to see if them being clustered up with no context, as they were before, was exacerbating the issue.

These are the Specters


And these are the Visages


And this is Aldorn and lady Aldorn (I didn't include Lady Aldorn in the original image.)

[superfrog]

I do think the new Aldornians look surprisingly distinct (from each other and from the Specters).

[Scytale]

It's not easy to tell from the pictures, but I'm willing to believe these models are distinct enough from the Specters. I may change my mind when I get the figures in hand, though.

The designs are all pretty decent. I don't think there's a need to expand that faction, and the game has plenty enough translucent figures already, but at least on the surface these appear to be decent additions.

to review Master Aldorn
to review Visages of Aldorn
to review Lady Aldorn

[Vydar_XLIII]

These have my 3 upvotes as well.

to review Master Aldorn
to review Visages of Aldorn
to review Lady Aldorn

[Dysole]

to review Master Aldorn, Visages, and Lady Aldorn

I have some things I'm curious to see in playtesting, but I have no complaints with these figures. I'm not sure the Specter faction needs more things, but these fit thematically and give some potentially interesting options both within the faction and outside of it. I would like to know if the Visages are able to be played standalone but I doubt it would affect my vote.

~Dysole, updatingly

[Sir Heroscape]

Took a look at the OP...we're closing in on 3 years since the submissions of Masha, Rujin and Shadow Wraith.

Now, I know there are reasons for that - having had conversations with some of you privately - but if I'm being honest, would love to see increased commitment and focus from the judges to get these "old timer" designs decided on.

Not trying to offend. I know many of you wear multiple "hats"...life gets in the way, priorities shift...I get it. That said, seems a bit unfair that with so many "active" judges...we can't see a resolution after so long.

I respect you all, and appreciate your hard work here...just trying to give a friendly nudge.

[UtahScott]

This is true. However, there were about 22 SoV votes last year, and they've averaged three inducted cards per year since 2011. We got four finished SoV army cards last year. I think the pace is good, especially considering the three months of...distraction...last fall...

[Sir Heroscape]

Like I said, total respect…and I get it….just asking for some focus
on the “old timers”…seeing as they’ve been sitting the longest. That’s all.

~ getting off my soapbox, I’ll say no more

[P_J_Keller]

Originally Posted by Sir Heroscape

Took a look at the OP...we're closing in on 3 years since the submissions of Masha, Rujin and Shadow Wraith.

As someone that tries to keep up on the submitted miniatures before they become too costly, can you include a link when referencing a prior submission?

This way I can verify that I have the mini while waiting for approval

Thanks

[MegaSilver]

Originally Posted by P_J_Keller

As someone that tries to keep up on the submitted miniatures before they become too costly, can you include a link when referencing a prior submission?

This way I can verify that I have the mini while waiting for approval

Thanks

They are all listed in the OP